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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Jean Sands

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Name Sands, Jean
Date of birth 24 February 1928
Place of Birth Barnsley, Yorkshire
Joined WLA 25 September 1945
Left WLA 18 December 1947
WLA No. 160768
Trained Ravensden
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Cople House Hostel. (Briefly at Bolnhurst and Sharnbrook hostels)
Married name Ritchie
Further information Former factory worker, aged 17 on entry.  Transferred to Bedfordshire 13 October 1945.   Mainly market gardening at Langford for Mr Brown and John Kendal.
Demobilised.

Cople Land Girls - Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Cople House hostel land girls
 Mona McKenna and Jean Sands

Cople Land Girls on the Embankment - Katleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

Cople House hostel land girls on the Bedford river embankment
(l-r) Kathleen Inker, Betty Wallis, Jean Sands, Eileen O'Connell

Stageshow

Cople WLA Hostel concert party entertaining the troups at Kempston Barracks, 30 June 1947. [Source: L Freestone]
Back row: (l to r) ?, Joan Wood, Doreen Parish, Jean Sands, Joy Collard, Kathleen Inker, Edna _____?, 'Betty' Wallis, Grace Cross
Middle row: Mrs Truman [WLA Bedford HQ staff], ?, ?, Rose Perritt, Mona McKenna, Barbara Strike, ?, ? (with guitar), Dora ______?, ?, Olwyn Dinsdale, Mrs. Sharman [WLA Bedford HQ staff]
Front row: ?, Margaret Bandy, ?, (unknown man), ?, ?, ?, ?[WLA Bedford HQ staff?]

 

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